November 2011-CA

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Anaheim, California

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Workshop Agenda - November 10, 2011

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Begin at 9:00 am

• Welcome - Feel free visit Cafe 10:31 for a coffee type beverage.

OPENING DEVOTION - Perspective



SHARING - (Check Edmodo Postings)

• Share a success story that you experienced since our last meeting. We celebrate success.
• Share something that didn't go as well as you had hoped. We celebrate our failures as an opportunity to learn.
• Share something that made you "Spark".

COOL TOOL - Skype

• Meet Brent, the guy behind TEC21

PRESENTATION/DISCUSSION - Rethinking Homework

• Backwards Design
• Use creativity to fight plagiarism
• Use Digital Kits to focus on content.

KEYNOTE TOOLS - "That's SO not Power Point"

• Prezi - See devotion for example
• Google Presentations
• Voicethread
• Glogster

FUN HOLIDAY SITES FOR YOUR STUDENTS

• Snowflake Workshop
• Make a Flake
• Highlights Gingerbread House - Turn the sound down, the music is ANNOYING!
• SHARE YOUR IDEAS - I'll add them to this list.

Lunch Hour at 11:30 am / Back to Work at 12:30 pm

PROJECT/LESSON DEVELOPMENT - Design a lesson or project, but rather than requiring students to use a particular tool, let them select the tool that think is the best. Develop your content Rubric using RubiStar.

REFLECTION & WRAP-UP

Dismiss at 2:00 pm

REMINDER: We will not be meeting in December. Our next workshop is January 12, 2012. Have a...

• Happy Thanksgiving
• Merry Christmas
• Happy New Year

...and don't forget to keep sharing your thoughts, comments, ideas, and questions on Edmodo.



“Be wise enough to thank God for not giving you some of the things you’ve asked for, and gracious enough to gratefully enjoy what He gave you in its place.”